Bush Brother Sued Over 1989 Japanese Stock Deal
Prescott Bush Jr is named in a suit by West Tsusho Co of Tokyo over a failed $5 million investment in Asset Management International Financing and Settlement Ltd. The firm alleges he guaranteed repayment if the stock lost value within five years. The New York company later went bankrupt.
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New York
Bush
West Tsusho Co
Tokyo
Prescott Bush Jr
Asset Management, International Financing and Settlement Ltd
West Tsusho
John R. Bartels Jr
Prescott Bush
Inagawakai
Japan
Hughes guilty of fraud in defense parts conspiracy
Los Angeles AP Hughes Aircraft Co was convicted of conspiring to defraud the government by falsifying tests on circuitry for fighter planes missiles and tanks A federal jury acquitted the company of making false statements about the parts and cleared former supervisor Donald Anthony LaRue 64 of sending untested parts to customers without proper testing
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Los Angeles
Hughes Aircraft Co
Donald Anthony LaRue
Last German hostages freed in Lebanon release
The last two Western captives in Lebanon, German relief workers Heinrich Struebig and Thomas Kemptner, were handed to a joint Syrian-Lebanese committee after 1,127 days in captivity. German envoy Bernd Schmidbauer met them in Beirut as officials prepare formal handover.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Syria
Damascus
Struebig
Kemptner
Schmidbauer
Anne Schmeling
Eee Calling
Holy Warriors For Freedom
Germany
Black boycott marks uprising in Soweto day protests
South Africa faced a mass work boycott as Nelson Mandela and the ANC pressed for majority rule on Soweto Day. Police reported multiple fatal attacks outside Johannesburg with violence spreading from the day’s demonstrations. Large numbers of black workers stayed home in major cities.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Soweto
African National Congress
F.W. de Klerk
ANC
Nelson Mandela
de Klerk
Mass Ac
Pretoria
Durban
Cape Town
Mandela
Hector Petersen
Evaton
Daveyton
Sebokeng
NTSB cites pilot’s lack of training in Grand Canyon crash
Las Vegas Airlines pilot Perry Smallwood had almost no instrument flying training and had not flown in eight years before the December crash that killed five people, including four French tourists. The NTSB urged safety reviews of hiring practices and weather-influenced flying due to economic pressures.
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Las Vegas
Grand Canyon
Perry Smallwood
National Transportation Safety Board
Smallwood
Laxi Airlines
Arizona, Nevada
Air Force
NTSB
Federal Aviation Administration
Susan M. Coughlin
Las Vegas Airlines
Coughlin
MacArthur genius grants awarded to activists and academics
Thirty three recipients including Twyla Tharp and professor Philip Treisman received MacArthur Foundation genius grants for creativity. Notable honorees include Robert Hall for labor advocacy, UC Davis biologist Geerat Vermeij, and Anita Blackwell Mississippi’s first black woman mayor. Awards total up to $350,000 for some over five years.
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Chicago
South
MacArthur Foundation
Twyla Tharp
Hell
Robert Hall
Southern Exposure
Institute For Southern Studies of
Durham
N.C
Hall
Philip Ari Treisman
University of Texas At Austin
University of California At Berkeley
Treisman
Berkeley
Geerat Vermeij
University of California At Davis
Anita Blackwell
Mississippi
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Inglewood
Calif
Alex Perez
Perez
Hollywood Park Racetrack
Denver
Richard Wolfe
Denver General Hospital
Ignatius Nwandilibe
Nwandilibe
Hughes
Robert W. Rainey
IDS
Castle Arms Hotel
New Castle
Associated Press
Terry Anderson
Tion
Inkatha Freedom Party
Inkatha Movement
America
Blackwell
Mayersville
Miss
The
Tional Conference of Black Mayors
Tharp
FOX Antiques
Shenango
Shenango Municipal
Elisco Insurance Services
C.D
Pennsylvania
David A. Elisco
LUTCF
Financial Services Department
Chris Wright
Thomas C. McConnell
Butler Ave
Rigotti’s
Todd Abraham
E. Falls St
David J. Butch
Wilmington Rd
Egidio’s
TIM Glass
E. Poland Ave
Bessemer
Tim Wofford
Ronald C. Abraham
Nationwide Insurance
Ionwi Au Side
Mi Insurance Company
Aes Lente Ie
Watt
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